News Release Number: STScI-2008-08

Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe

February 12, 2008: NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have
uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the
middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our
universe.